The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Tow Foundation are giving the Columbia School of Journalism a $2 million grant to fund “applied research in journalism” — studies that not only describe what’s happening, but prescribe the best practices for journalists to follow.
Later this year Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism will issue a call for research proposals, Director Emily Bell told Poynter.
Tow will seek the best research ideas from all sorts of people — academics, working journalists, experts. Some may be small projects done by one person in a few months, others may be long-term projects by teams collaborating across multiple newsrooms.
